Fifteen years since the start of the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia, ... 'As Long As I'm Alive, I Won't Turn Off My Phone' On August 7, 2008, at 4 a.m., ...

They reignited when Georgian Dream, founded by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, won elections before escalating again last week. ... They point to Georgia’s brief war with Russia in 2008, ...

When Georgian Dream won the elections in 2012, ending the rule of Saakashvili's ENM, and Ivanishvili became prime minister, he marked the 2012 anniversary of the war on August 8.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Russo-Georgian War. Georgia has a famously fraught relationship with its two separatist regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Since before its independence ...

TBILISI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Georgia's most powerful man won a parliamentary election on Saturday, according to early official results, a victory which opposition politicians refused to recognise ...

In a statement, Mikheil Saakashvili, who was Georgia’s president at the time of the 2008 war, called Mr. Ivanishvili’s statement “an unprecedented betrayal” and “an insult to the memory ...